Yep, we’re going there. Which football team is the best? Well, ask any fan and they are going to tell you that it is their personal favorite. But we are data scientists. Surely, we can do better! And of course, […]
Principal components analysis is all about rotating data. That is all that it does. I know that sounds simple but the algorithm itself is designed to find the best rotation such that most of the variation lies along one axis […]
So it is election time again, and by and large I ignore politics. I just try to stay out of it, not that I don’t care, but because I don’t want to be seen as being overtly campaigning for one […]
My first order of business is to announce the winner of my Christmas giveaway. This past Christmas, I was running a giveaway for some free time to spend with me for some data science coaching and a fifty dollar gift […]
Guess what? I’m giving away an hour of data science coaching and a $50 gift card for Christmas this year. That’s right, ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! On every page on the website you will see a nice little opt […]
Why Coaching Usually I post a tutorial about a data science topic, sometimes I write a post about something a little bit more meta about data science like how to get started as a new comer, on occasion I’ll recommend […]
So you want to be a data scientist. That’s great. But you may be wondering where to start. Sometimes it feels like you are trying to do the impossible like get up to the speed of light. Things get awful […]